George Balanchine, former ballet master of the New York City
Ballet, started his career in the Imperial Russian Ballet Academy.
He later joined the great Diaghilev company in Europe, becoming
ballet master for that group at the age of twenty-one. In 1933 he
came to New York at the invitation of the Lincoln Kirstein to found
the School of American Ballet. He has been ballet master for
numerous companies and his ballets are in the repertoires of
distinguished ensembles in the United States and abroad. Among the
more than 100 ballets he has choreographed areApollo, Prodigal Son,
Symphony in C, Orpheus, Agon, Liebeslieder Walzer, and the
full-lengthA Midsummer Night's Dream.
Francis Mason has been writing about dance since 1950 when he
becameThe Hudson Review'sfirst ballet critic. He has been president
of the board of directors of the Martha Graham Center for
Contemporary Dance, vice president ofBallet Review, and a member of
the Committee for the Dance Collection of the New York Public
Library. He has worked with George Balanchine on two editions
ofBalanchine's Complete Stories of the Great Ballets.
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